.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 247 121
Rank change year-on-year -67 -126 +28
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 394 494 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.26% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.53% 5.65% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 360 398 1,755
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,129 8,750 16,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.83% 22.24% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,440 6,072 13,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 112 £55,000 +6.39% 28
London -36 93 £80,000 - 52
North West -19 66 £55,000 - 13
South East -34 62 £60,000 +14.29% 31
Midlands -24 57 £65,000 +23.81% 16
East Midlands -17 44 £65,000 +23.81% 10
South West -7 39 £55,000 -24.14% 14
Yorkshire -56 25 £40,000 -20.00% 9
East of England -10 23 £82,500 +65.00% 13
North East -5 21 £55,000 +22.22% 8
West Midlands -24 13 £55,000 -2.22% 6
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.78%) IIS
2 5 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Kentico
4 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (58.88%) Azure
2 87 (22.08%) AWS
3 63 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (12.44%) Serverless
5 40 (10.15%) SaaS
6 35 (8.88%) GitHub
7 26 (6.60%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (5.33%) Azure Functions
9 21 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (4.31%) Azure AKS
11 15 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (3.55%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.30%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) Internet
2 2 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (38.58%) SQL Server
2 45 (11.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (9.39%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.12%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (5.58%) Power BI
7 16 (4.06%) MySQL
8 15 (3.81%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.02%) Redis
12 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (12.94%) Git
2 9 (2.28%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.02%) JIRA
5 3 (0.76%) NUnit
5 3 (0.76%) Vite
5 3 (0.76%) webpack
6 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.51%) MSTest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (12.94%) Finance
2 41 (10.41%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.31%) Law
4 15 (3.81%) Games
5 13 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.28%) Front Office
8 8 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.03%) Banking
9 6 (1.52%) Marketing
10 5 (1.27%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Retail
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.51%) Local Government
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 274 (69.54%) Developer
2 137 (34.77%) .NET Developer
3 107 (27.16%) Senior
4 87 (22.08%) Software Developer
5 72 (18.27%) C# Developer
6 64 (16.24%) Senior Developer
7 51 (12.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (12.94%) Software Engineer
8 48 (12.18%) Lead
9 41 (10.41%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (7.11%) .NET Software Engineer
11 27 (6.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 26 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (6.35%) Lead Developer
14 24 (6.09%) Senior Software Developer
15 23 (5.84%) React Developer
16 21 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (5.33%) Senior .NET Developer
17 20 (5.08%) .NET Software Developer
17 20 (5.08%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (33.76%) ASP.NET
3 99 (25.13%) React
4 85 (21.57%) .NET Framework
5 61 (15.48%) RESTful
6 56 (14.21%) AngularJS
7 53 (13.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 53 (13.45%) Blazor
7 53 (13.45%) HTML
8 52 (13.20%) CSS
8 52 (13.20%) Entity Framework
9 34 (8.63%) Vue
10 33 (8.38%) REST
11 30 (7.61%) ASP.NET MVC
11 30 (7.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 30 (7.61%) Node.js
12 15 (3.81%) HTML5
13 14 (3.55%) Dapper ORM
14 13 (3.30%) AWS CDK
15 12 (3.05%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (3.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.54%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.03%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.03%) Sports Betting
9 6 (1.52%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.02%) Digital TV
11 4 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.02%) Social Network
11 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.79%) VMS
2 5 (1.27%) Windows
3 4 (1.02%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (35.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 136 (34.52%) Agile
3 114 (28.93%) CI/CD
4 112 (28.43%) Software Engineering
5 97 (24.62%) DevOps
6 90 (22.84%) Microservices
7 68 (17.26%) MVC
8 63 (15.99%) Containerisation
9 57 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (12.44%) SDLC
11 43 (10.91%) Clean Code
12 38 (9.64%) OO
12 38 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (8.88%) Collaborative Culture
14 32 (8.12%) AI
14 32 (8.12%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.87%) Analytics
16 29 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.11%) Scrum
18 27 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 342 (86.80%) C#
2 162 (41.12%) SQL
3 112 (28.43%) JavaScript
4 54 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.09%) Python
6 22 (5.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.28%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.03%) Rust
10 5 (1.27%) Bash
10 5 (1.27%) Java
11 4 (1.02%) Bicep
12 3 (0.76%) Erlang
12 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (8.12%) Degree
2 14 (3.55%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.79%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.55%) QA
2 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.51%) GDPR
2 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.51%) SLA
2 2 (0.51%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 89 (22.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.87%) Terraform
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 117 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.52%) Google
3 4 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (1.02%) Facebook
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe
5 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.51%) Databricks
5 2 (0.51%) Foundry
5 2 (0.51%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.51%) YouTube
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) Okta
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce